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Redzel jumps to number 2 in earnings for Australasian horses. Putting aside inflated earnings a horse that has a 50% win and 75% place record racing against the best sprinters going around is a good effort by any measure.

Redzel might now be second behind Winx as far as stake winnings of Aust / NZ bred gallopers, however, I would think Manikato, Black Caviar,Buffering and Takeover Target would have being capable of winning two Everests had the race been around when they raced .

According to a copy of Miller's Guide "Note in a Racetrack magazine article in January 2006, Dr Graeme Putt of New Zealand figured out that on the races he won Phar Lap would have earned $15,761,758 by 2008 standards"

Their " list was originally compiled by the International Racing Bureau, which is a British company, hence the use of sterling and the official overseas currency exchange rates issued by the British Horseracing Authority in the first week of every January.

In my opinion this is a lazy way to measure earnings. Quite a few European horses travel to the US, Hong Kong or Australia at the end of a calender year and exchanges rates can and do yo-yo over very short periods. The British Horseracing Authority gets a fail and needs to lift it's game. Interestingly there is very little difference between my more recent foreign earnings conversion figures and those now on racing.nsw and racing.com. (eg Hartnell). Some of the early figures for implied exchange rates used by the then racingvic website were very different from the true exchange rate. I have included my GBP figures for comparison purposes.

Some that should be on the list: So You Think (NZ) 2006 omitted GBP 5,445,105.35Found (IRE) 2012 omitted GBP 5,525,376.95

Two that suffered due to low rates of exchange against the GBP (and USD): Sunline (NZ) 1995 less than GBP 5m. GBP 4,343,754Vengeance of Rain (NZ) 2000 (raced in Australia as Subscribe) less than GBP 5m. GBP 4,786,231

..........contributors to this thread may need to be formally assessed

If we took a poll of people on the forum of who they thought needed to be formally assessed Peter, I would think timw wouldn't get a mention. He is one of the best and accurate contributors to the forum.

According to Sam Duncan in today's Age (p23 - not in the sports pages) Winx will become the 'greatest money winner in world racing' if she wins the Cox Plate. The best I can do is promote her to fifth in USD, second in GBP and second in AUD.

According to Sam Duncan in today's Age (p23 - not in the sports pages) Winx will become the 'greatest money winner in world racing' if she wins the Cox Plate. The best I can do is promote her to fifth in USD, second in GBP and second in AUD.

According to Sam Duncan in today's Age (p23 - not in the sports pages) Winx will become the 'greatest money winner in world racing' if she wins the Cox Plate. The best I can do is promote her to fifth in USD, second in GBP and second in AUD.

They don't make much of an effort do they? A few minutes on Google would show that was fake news.

I have updated all of Winx details (I hope). I have her ranked fifth in world wide earnings in USD and second in GBP and AUD. To get to number 1 in USD she will need to win all the same races in autumn 2019 as she won in 2018 and the ATC will need to increase its prizemoney and/or hope the USD / AUD exchange rate increases in Australia's favour (not good for exporters but good for holidays to USA).

I have updated all of Winx details (I hope). I have her ranked fifth in world wide earnings in USD and second in GBP and AUD. To get to number 1 in USD she will need to win all the same races in autumn 2019 as she won in 2018 and the ATC will need to increase its prizemoney and/or hope the USD / AUD exchange rate increases in Australia's favour (not good for exporters but good for holidays to USA).